Speaking to E! News backstage, Garcia confessed that she was "really surprised" about the result.

"I guess I had a little more faith in myself," she said. "But everything happens for a reason, and I have to keep telling myself that."

Garcia, who vowed to reverse the effects of her makeover by "dyeing [her] hair black and taking off the heels", promised to keep pursuing a music career.

"I'm getting right back into making my own music because one thing I really hated is that we were singing somebody else's music," she said. "It's going to be rock and roll and it's going to be badass, as tough as a guy. It's not going to be girly."

Garcia added: "I feel like a lot of what I've been doing [on X Factor] is girly with the make-up and the hair, and that wasn't necessarily me. My goal coming in was [to] put rock music back on the radio, and that's exactly what I'm going to fight for until I croak."